The First Graphene Light Bulb Is Also The 'World's Thinnest' Light Bulb

On your rapidly diminishing list of things graphene cannot improve, go ahead and cross off “light bulbs.” An international team of researchers drawn from Columb...

Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

This Toy Car Is Powered Just By Water Evaporating

It doesn’t look like the most cutting-edge vehicle. A dinky toy car made out of what looks like Lego Technic creeps in slow jerks across a tabletop—and that&rsq...

Making Labour Joyful

BIRTH is an unpredictable affair. One moment you are contentedly showering your enormous, overstretched self, or lying on a hard hospital bed with nothing much to do; the n...

Explosive Intervention By Pope Francis Set To Transform Climate Change Debate

The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ?tyrannical? exploitation of nature by mankind...

A Sustainable City Needs Sustainable Finance

A new report by WWF reveals that banks in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia perform poorly when it comes to ESG standards. It may come as a surprise to many that Singapore ...

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

– Kurt Vonnegut Read More